TO THE BRETHREN IN N. Y. AND PA.
By B. L. Whitney
We appeal to our brethren once more in reference to attending the coming camp-meeting. There are reasons why the brethren in every part of the State are especially interested in this meeting. Our State Conference and annual Tract Society meeting will be held in connection with it, and for these reasons there should be a more general interest taken in this meeting than there was in the meeting held last spring. We hope to see every church in our Conference represented by delegate at this coming session. Then there are many of our brethren in the western part of the State who attended the camp-meeting this spring, who are abundantly able to go again this fall, and we hope to see them at the northern meeting. But especially are we anxious to see a full attendance of the brethren from the central and northern part of the State. It will be upon these brethren that we shall have to depend mainly for the turnout. This meeting, brethren, is in your midst, and its success will depend largely upon you. Will you do what you can to make this one of the best camp-meetings ever held in the State, by attending yourselves, and using your influence to get others who may be benefited by the meeting to come? Do not stay away because you are not provided with tents, as there will be provision made for such as have not arranged for themselves. Bro. Hall has ordered an extra tent for the scattered brethren in St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties, and other arrangements will be made for those who are unprovided for. The location of the grounds is all that we could ask. The cars land us on the ground, without the annoyance and expense of a transfer of passengers and baggage two or three miles as heretofore. Every effort will be made to have the expense of the meeting as light as possible, by the practice of rigid economy, and of care in fitting up the ground; and to this end we extend an urgent invitation to any and all our able-bodied brethren who can do so, to be on the ground as early as possible on Monday of the week of meeting, to assist in fitting up the ground, and making preparations for the meeting; and that they do this for the good of the cause, without expecting compensation therefor. Let all who will do this report immediately to Bro. Wm. H. Brown, Munnsville, N. Y., so that we may know what we can depend upon. And now we have something to say to those who may not attend the meeting. It is a fact that in all parts of the State there are brethren who are owing our Tract Society for periodicals for which the Society has become responsible at the Office of publication. Every dollar that is owing to the Society in this way we are owing to our publishing houses, and they are to-day in need of it. Now we ask our brethren who are owing for their periodicals to make a special effort to pay up this indebtedness between this time and the time of the camp-meeting, so that we may be prepared to settle our accounts with the Publishing Associations. We advise those brethren who are laboring with the tents not to leave a good interest to come to the camp-meeting, as we want to see all accomplished that may be as the result of the present tent season. May the blessing of God attend our coming Conference and camp-meeting, and the precious cause of present truth still go forward in our midst. B. L. WHITNEY. Wellsville, N. Y., Aug. 24.